Colorado Code § 31-32-103

Ordinance read twice - publication before passage. Every such ordinance
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shall be read at least twice in full, once at the time of its introduction and again before the
question of its passage is voted upon. No governing body of any city or town shall permit any
such ordinance to be introduced or read for the first time at any meeting other than the regular
meeting specified in such notice nor unless proof of compliance by the applicant with section 31-
32-102 is first presented to such governing body in the form of a publisher's affidavit of
publication or a certificate of the clerk of the posting of such notice. When such ordinance has
been introduced and read for the first time, the governing body, if it desires to further consider
the granting of the rights or privileges sought for thereby, shall order the same to be published
daily in a paper of general circulation published in such city or town for a period of not less than
two weeks prior to the time such ordinance is again read and put upon its passage. If there is no
paper of general circulation published daily in such city or town, such publication shall be made
in a paper of general circulation published weekly in such city or town. If there is no such paper
published daily or weekly, such publication shall be made by posting copies of such proposed
ordinance in at least six public places in such municipality for the same period of time. No such
ordinance shall be adopted or passed by the governing body of any city or town unless the same
has been previously introduced and read and publication first made as provided for in this
section. Such previous introduction and reading of such ordinance and the fact of its publication
in a newspaper or by posting shall appear in the certificate and the attestation of the clerk on
such ordinance after its adoption.

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